Learning and teaching about matter in the middle-school years: How can the atomic-molecular theory be meaningfully introduced?

International Handbook of Research on Conceptual Change

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 177-194

  Wiser, Marianne ^a   Smith, Carol L ^b  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203154472     Document Type: Chapter

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